What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Same here @igorsMistress, we have great friendships with the neighbors, we'd hunker down here depending on the situation (we do have the toterhome & offroad vehicles if we had to bug out). Although if it's this crap with Russia, being on the east coast where we are, I think we'd be glass pretty quick. Halfway between NYC & Boston & DC so close, the sub base in Groton & the power plants I think we'd be a front runner to be nuked!

We have a small bit of solar & 3 generators (propane, diesel & gas) with some fuel supplies. Water would be an issue, we're on a shared well & are not allowed to put in our own. But our water table is super high & we have heavy equipment to dig & there is a spring somewhere out back in our wetlands I believe.

Guns & ammo - we have lots. DH reloads most of his own ammo & we have some supplies.

This is such an interesting conversation. I love to hear how everyone has thought about all of this stuff & how prepared everyone is. I guess it's a thing with gardeners & chicken people - we are already a couple steps closer to being 'prepers' because of those things.

I’m not worried too much about nukes with the exception of an EMP. Nukes would be suicide because Russia knows we’d respond, but an EMP would throw the whole country into more chaos than we have already..
Let us not forget the hackers…

 

[igorsMistress]

Wanted to add that if things go really far off the rails, prepare for tribalism,unless of course there is an invading army... But tribalism means individuals won't be able to survive alone. You will have to make alliances and protect each other from other roving bands of people who want or need resources. There's always power in numbers.

An invading army would potentially unite people for the common good. Tribalism would pit us against each other, so we would destroy ourselves from within and it would be easier to invade later in theory.

 

[Beer can]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it here but I'll be ordering today;

"From noon CST today, February 25, 2022, to midnight Sunday, February 27th, 2022,
Baker Creek will donate 100 percent of all seed sales to World Help to provide humanitarian aid for Ukrainians displaced by war."
https://www.rareseeds.com/ukraine

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Woke up this morning and one of my female duck hens passed away in the coop overnight. I had no idea she was even sick. I also am not 100 percent sure how old she is so it could have simply been old age but I'm pretty bummed

I'm so sorry! That has to be so hard! I cannot imagine!

 

[WthrLady]

Know you aren't alone! So many of us have very similar situations!
Our primary care provider said our family has some "bad juju" and dismisses it at that. No interest in trying to find why out entire family for 4 and now 5 generations had the same health problems.

WTH!?!?!?
My mom never was able to figure out what her problem was. I have never seen a person sleep so much in my life. Her medical file was huge, but for treatment, not investigation. They all out refused to run a lyme's test on her because it's expensive. WTH? She was paying for it, why say no? That was back in the 90s.
It's the lack of empathy that not only turns me off, but repels me from care. Not exactly what they stand for, eh?
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Breezy today, but at least above freezing for the first time in a week. I'll be out moving supplies from one building to another in anticipation of working on the hoophouse more this week. I'd like to get it to the plastic top being the only thing left to do on a dead air day.

The seed shed will get sorted this week.

I have some wood signs that need polycoated, but that has to be done with the great doors open on the shop as I have a chicken living in there now. So mid week maybe.
(Reminds me, I need a quart of poly)

Been drooling over a new youtube channel. Jealous of all that love veg so much as to grow such a grand variety.

 

[WthrLady]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it here but I'll be ordering today;

"From noon CST today, February 25, 2022, to midnight Sunday, February 27th, 2022,
Baker Creek will donate 100 percent of all seed sales to World Help to provide humanitarian aid for Ukrainians displaced by war."
https://www.rareseeds.com/ukraine

Loading up my cart for quick noon check out.

 

[Sueby]

If things go THAT far south I'd just off myself. I'm too old & in too much pain to be on the run or to have to fend that much for myself. I could survive here for a while if things got tough & food got hard to find, or the grid went down or something, but if we're talking running for the hills & surviving off the land long term...I'm checking out, lol.

 

[Sueby]

Yes i have rheumatoid, fibromyalgia and degenerative disc disease.

I have no experience with fibro, but I hear its tough. I also have degenerative disc, 3 herniated discs, spondylolysis (a fracture) & stenosis - my back is a huge mess from a car accident & the wrath of mother nature after it. Man it stinks to get old, I don't recommend it.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I’m not worried too much about nukes with the exception of an EMP. Nukes would be suicide because Russia knows we’d respond, but an EMP would throw the whole country into more chaos than we have already..
Let us not forget the hackers…

I have worked in critical infrastructure for my entire 25+ year career. I also work with emergency management at all levels (local, state, and federal). I have been through preparedness training for every kind of scenario imaginable, including EMP. Here's what ought to scare you. There is a very small, very old group of experts who advise Congress and the DoD on EMP. They have been warning for decades about what would happen should we be hit. It's not just a one and done type scenario. Did you know that North Korea has 2 satellites positioned over the US that could trigger an EMP at any time? Did you know that one of the worst dangers from an EMP are city septic and waste management plants? There are motorized lifts that keep those systems moving. If they shut down for more than 4 hours, the sludge in them will solidify. The only fix at that point is rip and replace. That effectively destroys an entire city's waste removal. Now you have the potential for a humanitarian health crisis complicated by disease, contaminated water, etc. Scary stuff.

 

[WthrLady]

Honestly, if it comes to that we're all screwed in every way, so I can't even find myself worrying about it.